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“Arab Nationalism”: Has a New Framework Emerged? (question posed by James L. Gelvin)

Pensée 1: “Arab Nationalism” Meets Social Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2009

James L. Gelvin*
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.; e-mail: gelvin@history.ucla.edu

Extract

The “origins problem” has loomed large in the historiography of nationalism in the Arab Middle East and for good reason: it is constitutive and representative of other issues surrounding the problem of nationalism. George Antonius published the first iteration of what might be termed the “standard [origins] narrative” in 1938. Since that time, the narrative has undergone a number of revisions, the most notable of which are by C. Ernest Dawn, Philip S. Khoury, and Rashid Khalidi, among others.

Type
Quick Studies
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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References

NOTE

1 Halliday, Fred, “Formalism of Yemeni Nationalism: Reflections,” in Rethinking Nationalism in the Arab Middle East, ed. Jankowski, James and Gershoni, Israel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 2729Google Scholar.